Transformation of the "public sphere" - and mapping project and research/teaching guide

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has launched a special feature on the
occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall on November 9, 2009, hosted on
the online essay forum "Transformations of the Public Sphere", co-sponsored by NYU's
Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK). With essays by Andrew Arato, Mark Beissinger,
Hauke Brunkhorst, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Konrad Jarausch, Michael Kennedy, Elzbieta Matynia,
Steven Pfaff and forthcoming essays by Jack Goldstone, Julia Hell, and others. The forum
is interactive. Readers are invited to submit comments:
http://publicsphere.ssrc.org.

The essay forum is accompanied by the beta version of the Public Sphere Guide, seeking
to create a map of the fragmented interdisciplinary field of study on the public sphere.
This mapping project serves as a research guide and teaching guide and as a resource for
the renewal of the public sphere:
http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/guide

http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/20th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-the-wall/